She was born and raised in Great Kills, and graduated from St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School. Ms. Friberg earned her bachelor of science degree in psychology from Ithaca (N.Y.) College, and received her master's degree in physical therapy from the former Beaver College, now Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pa.

Ms. Friberg relocated to San Diego 25 years ago to begin her professional career as a physical therapist.

She loved the beach and the sun in California, and she loved and enjoyed the companionship of her two Sharpei dogs.

Ms. Friberg's patients and friends remember her as a caring and loving person, family said.

They also noted she chose to be an organ donor, in honor of her late father, Robert C., who was an organ donor recipient.

While living on the Island, she was a parishioner of St. Clare's R.C. Church, Great Kills.

Surviving are her morther, Barbara Coleman Friberg, and her brothers, Robert V. and Keith.

The funeral will be Wednesday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in St. Clare's Church. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.